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Selecting the current or default symbol set
Yourprintercan useeithertheprimaryor thesecondaryfontas its current
font. And that current font has its currentsymbolset. Your printeralso
remembemitsdefaultfontandsymbolset,whichareCourierwithRoman-
8 (unlessyou’vechangedtheir initialparametervaluesthroughthe front
panelmenu).
The followingcommandletsyouselectoneof thosesymbolsets for your
primaryfont.
<ESC>( n @
For n enteroneof the followingselectionvaluesforyourprimaryfont:
n VALUE
SELECTION
O(zero)or 1(one)
Selectsthedefaultsymbolset
2
Selectsthecurrentfont’ssymbolset (this
forcesthe printerto selectits bestmatch-
ing font)
3
Selectsall of the defaultfont’sattributes
(notjust symbolset)
Similarly,youcanselecteitherthedefaultorthecurrentsymbolsetforyour
secondaryfont. You also may want to use the same symbolset for both
primaryandsecondaryfonts.
To do these tasks, youcan send the followingcommandto selectwhich
symbolset you wantfor yoursecondaryfont:
<ESC>) n @
For n enteroncof thevaluesfromthistable:
n VALUE
SELECTION
O(zero) Selectsthedefaultsymbolset
1 (one) Selectssamesymbolset as primaryfont
2
Selects’thecurrentfont’ssymbolset
3 Selects all the default font’s attributes(notjust
symbolset)
Example: Symbol set commands
Let’stakeashortlookathowyouusethesecommands.Here’sthescenario:
YouarealreadyusingtheTmsRomntypeface,butwantto usetheGerman
symbolsetasyouarewritingareportforyourBerlinofficeandneedumlaut
charactersforseveralnamesin the report.
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